Stocking and method of knitting same on flat knitting machines



Feb. l2l, 1933. w. HElNn-z ,898,957

STOCKING AND METHOD 0F KNITTING SAME 0N FLAT KNITTING MACHINES I Filed Aug. 1, 1931 s sheets-sheet 1 Feb. 2l, 1933. 1,898,957

s'rocxIEG AND METHOD oF KNITTING SAME oN FLAT KNITTING MACHINES Filed Aug. 1,` `1931 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 dll 9o voo 7o 7 3 4 5 6 N WWW 71E/Wm 'MWA uk J\ HHHH i fflfefvor.` WokiemarHemZ Patented Feb.' 2'1, i933 UNITED STATES WQLDEMAR BEINITz, or cHEMNITz', GERMANY, AssIeNoE To' s'cHUBEET a 'sAL'zER MASCHINENFABEIM, AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, or CHEMNITZ, GERMANY STOCKING .AND METHOD OF KNITTING SAME 0N FLAT' KNITTING- MACHINE Application led August 1, 1931. Serial 110,554,548, and i'n Germany August 5, 193'0.

f My invention relates to stockings and to the method of knitting same on iat knitting machines.l A

The stocking according to my invention has a pair ofrrows 'of widened selvedge loops to be sewed at thei extended heel portions, and narrowing lines which start from the Vrear upper end'of the heel as ina pointed high heel, and extend towardthe ankle, or to a point below the ankle, at an inclined angle and on thesame wale.

My method is based on the old method in which the heel and foot portions are knitted at the same time and the selvedg'e `loops to be sewed are widened outwardly for increasing the width of the heel portions. lfn this old method, however, it is not possible tov obtain narrowing lines of "high heel narrowing lines could'be knitted `on a single machine heretofore only by nar-- rowing originally wider rows but this presents the difficulties that the machine must be'arrested when starting for these origi nallywider rows and that the originally wider' rows must be drawn voff separately.

My novel method not only eliminates these difliculties but in addition presents the advantage that-'the widened' portionpof the heel with pointed high heel narrowing lines is knitted from the leg in a form corresponding to the shape of the"foot.

1nv my method, after finishing the leg the widening of the heel is effected by not only widening selvedge loops to be sewed in one row of loops but also transferring inwardly heel loops in the same row and at the sameY '1,time,the number of which transferred heel loopsis increased for each subsequent row'.` `lideningand transferring within a row ,ofloops Ais effected at the same time in both heel; portions while selvedge loops `to be 4seated arer'formed at one end of a row in tion and forming part thereof a heel portion, the stages of knitting a row of loops, and a portion of a finished stocking according to my invention are illustrated diagrammatically by Vway of example.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a diagram of the loops in the heel portions, I

Figs. 2 to 5 illustrate the stages of knitting a. row of loops, and

Fig. 6 shows a narrowing line of the 1inished stocking.

When the leg has been finished as far as` the line a-a in Fig. 1, a selvedge loop is formed by widening at both ends of a row, the next row is sunk, and the tickler (not shown) is moved from the right to the left in Fig. 2. At the right-hand end ofthe row it transfers the three selvedge loops on the needles 14, 15 and 1'6 to the needles 13,`

11 and 15, the needle 13 having two loops, and thevneedle 16 being empty. The selvedge loop on the needle 17 is not'transferred inwardly. At the other end of the row the tickler widensV by transferring the loops from the needles 2 and?) to the needles 1 and 2 in outward di-rection while the needle 3 is empty. The tickler now returns, Fig. 3, for performing the next course of the same row without iniuencing the row at'its left-,hand end, and7 without interfering with the inwardly transferred loops onV the needles 13 and 14, but transferring the loop on needle 15 to needle 16 and transferring the loop on the needle 17 to the needle 18 as the outer selvedge loop. The tickler now returns and, starts afresh from the left for the next row,

Fig. 4, transferring the loops on needles 3, 4, 5, 6 to needles 4, 5, 6, 7 in inward direction at the left and transferring the loop from needle 16 to needle 17 at the right. Upon the next return of the tickler for performing the next course on the same row from the right to 'the left, Fig. 5, the selvedge loops on the ne'edles 17 and 18 at the right are not interfered with but the loop from the needle 2 is transferred to the needle l, and finally the loop from the needle 3 is transferred to the needle 2, Fig. 2, obtaining two selvedge loops at the left as Well 3S at the right-hand end of the row.

When the desired form of the heel has been knitted as described with' reference to Figs. I2 to 5, a .given number of rows are knitted by covering without narrowing from b-b to c-c by transferring loops inwardly as described but without interfering w1th the selvedge loops, whereupon the foot is narrowed in the usual manner from 0-0 to 1l-d, and the instep gusset may then be knitted.

The lines a-a etc., in Fig. lare shown at the finished stockingA in Fig. 6. From a-a where the leg is finished, to o--c the number of wales remains unchanged. From c-o to d-d the fabric is narrowed to the number l of loops required for the foot whereupon, ifv desired, an instep gusset may be formed.

It will appear that the narrowing lines A-B-C-D extend on the same wale during the widening, the rounding and the narrowing of the heel, starting both from the upper rear end of the heel and extending at an inclined angle toward the ankle or below, like the narrowing lines of la pointed high heel as distinguished from the narrowing lines of pocket heels which extend about vertically from the ankle toward the sole.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of construction shown and described for ob-v v'vious modifications will occur toya person skilled in the art.

Various changes may be made in the details disclosed in the foregoingspecification without departing from the invention or sacrificing the advantages thereof.

I claim I:

1. A stocking having a pair of widened rows of` selvedge loops to be sewed `at the widening of the heel, and narrowing lines beginning at the rear upper end of the heel and descending toward the ankle on the same wale at an inclined angle like thosel of 8 pointed high heel.

2. A stocking having a pair of widened :rows of selvedge loops to be sewed at thel widening of the heel, and narrowing lines begimningat the rearupper end of the heel an descending to a point below the ankle on the same Wale at an inclined angle -like those of a pointed high heel.

3. The method of knitting stockings in a single operation on flat knitting machines, comprising widening the heel by widening the selvedge loo s to be sewed, and at the same time trans erring heel loops inwardly the number of which increases with each row.

4. The method of knitting stockings in a single operation on fiat knitting machines, comprising widening the heel by Widening the selvedge loops to be sewed at oneend of a given row, transferring loo s inwardly at the other end o f said row wit out involvin the selvedge loops, and widening the seigvedge loops at this other end of the row.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WOLDEMAR HEIN ITZ. 

